Webinator 5 Scripts

Webinator 5 is discontinued. Please upgrade to the latest version.

Webinator 5 is written in Texis Web Script, which provides a flexible way to modify or even completely redesign your site's Webinator search. Texis Web Script is a powerful HTML server-side programming environment that enables a designer to easily create, deploy, and maintain Web based applications. It tightly integrates into one package three of the most needed entities:

An object enabled SQL RDBMS (Texis)
Concept Based Text Retrieval (Metamorph)
A CGI-scripting language and compiler (Vortex)

Texis Web Script extends HTML with programming capabilities which are directed towards the most commonly performed Web activities. This extended HTML language is called Vortex. Vortex HTML is compiled into P-code similar to Java. Execution of this P-code is very fast and efficient in contrast to interpreted script languages like Perl, and can easily support the demands of very highly hit Web servers.

Below are some example scripts for use with Webinator databases: a few alternate search interfaces, and admin utilities. For a quick summary of all Texis Web Script and SQL commands, see the Quick Reference page. For full details, see the Webscript manual and the Texis manual.

User Interface Examples

Webinator 5.1.? Search: The standard Webinator 5 search interface that comes with the distribution. It provides the Webinator look and feel. It is customizable by downloading the script and modifying it to suit your needs. This script is a bit complex since it provides so much back-compatibility; one of the scripts below may be an easier starting point for your own custom interface.; View Source Download Change Log
Webinator 5.1.? dowalk: The version 5 walker and administration script (the old version 4 webinatoradmin script is merged into dowalk). They require at least Texis version 5 released May 14, 2004 or later (texis -version).; View Source Download Change Log
Webinator 4 scripts: If you have Webinator 4 you can get its last script release here.

Other Useful Scripts

Meta Search Engine & Parser

This allows you to create a metasearch engine similar to those found at Dogpile.com or Metacrawler.com. A parser generator is available to help you create new kinds of Metasearches as well.

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Fast Adhoc Web Log Statistics Report

This tool is a very quick way to generate reports from your web-server log file. It shows: total hits, hits by host, hits by URL, hits by referrer, and hits by browser type. It can be used in real-time to see action on your server from a number different perspectives.

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Directory Tree

An admin script for producing a site map from a Webinator 4+ database. It prints every URL in the database, with a list of links from that page under each.

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Batch Walk and System Info

A tool for getting information from Webinator or a Search Appliance that would normally require interactively logging into the the web admin interface using a web browser. This script will log into the web interface, visit information pages, and summarize what it finds. Customize it to grab and display information you need. It currently does the following:

Download the query log in XLS (tab separated) format.
Summarize the query log giving click-over ratio, bad search ratio, top 10 queries, top 10 query words, top 10 clients.
Walk status: indicate how many pages walked in the last hour and walk start time.
System (appliance only): Check for database errors, show load average and warn if high, show disk space and warn if low.

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